Facilities AssistantUniversity

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to enhance your buildings and facilities maintenance experience in a key role at a leading Business School. As an important member of the WBS Facilities Team, reporting directly to the Facilities Coordinator, you will help support the WBS strategy and vision by delivering and promoting the maintenance of high-quality infrastructure and facilities. This role involves a combination of operational facilities maintenance and administrative tasks, so may be best suited to applicants with experience in both areas.

For details on the experience and skills required, please refer to the job description.

About You

This is a busy role in a fast-paced environment. You will need to be proactive, positive, self-motivated and enthusiastic, with a real can-do approach to work.

Please be aware that this role includes a physical element which will entail, for example, the moving of furniture and materials around and between buildings.

Please also be aware that this role occasionally calls for flexibility of start and finish times to cover preparation for events and teaching activities

About the Department

We’re a world-class business school at the heart of a world-class University. We are recognised for our academic excellence, our determination to challenge assumptions, and our connectivity to the broader university. We offer a broad range of undergraduate, graduate and executive courses. We recruit the brightest students, offer exceptional learning experiences, have a positive impact on society, produce impactful research that is published in premier journals, and employ outstanding faculty who are global experts in their fields.

We believe in the power of an entrepreneurial mind-set to change the world for the better, and that business schools should have a significant role in fuelling that change. So, we welcome the problem solvers, value creators and change makers who share our intellectual curiosity.

Warwick Business School is one of just two business schools in the UK to be recognised for advancing gender equality. In 2018 the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) awarded Warwick Business School a silver Athena SWAN award for its progress in gender equality. Warwick Business School is the first business school to receive a silver award.

Our reputation is based on our world-class staff, both academic and administrative, and world-class facilities. In addition, we have a very talented and diverse student body, with students from around 120 countries across our undergraduate, masters, MBA, PhD, Executive Education and DBA programmes.

How to Apply

To apply please click on the ‘Apply’ button above and complete your essential personal details, and attach a CV and cover letter by the closing date stated.

We will review applications throughout the advertising period and may contact shortlisted candidates before the closing date. We therefore encourage interested applicants to submit their application as early as possible. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a sufficient number of suitable applications.

Please ensure your CV includes your most recent employment experience along with any additional relevant experience and education history.

Your cover letter should detail your motivation for applying for the role as well as detailing how you meet the essential and desirable criteria.

The interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.